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I suspect that the British would simply call the colonies collectively "South America". And they would very likely also include Peru, which the Spanish had run into the ground by 1600 (fewer than 1 million people remaining). South American colonies would almost certainly lead to Australian...

All of these loo9k and sound like a lot of the Aboriginal place names you see in Australia.

You've done well. You've studied Dominion Theology very well for this TL. The Crusaders evolve in the racist Draken way that they would have had to evolve based on the pressures they were under. Ironically, because of the importance of the Family of David/Jesus, Crusader Christianity is not...

Or a Spanish-Korean alliance. The Spanish can be butterflied away from the Philippines if Magellan's expedition fails to cross the Pacific but it's ASB to assume that the Spanish can be butterflied away from East Asia forever. The Spanish do have the silver that the Chinese need. And the...

Basically, Canada must grow or die. The socialist industrial Midwest is landlocked, and the easiest way that it can break through to the sea is north through western Ontario to Moosonee and Ft. Albany once a railroad can be built from Sault St. Marie. Or if Manitoba can be taken, via a just...

Which was why IOTL that Churchill won the war and lost the election.The British electorate knew exactly what it was doing when it brought Labour in in 1945. British voters WANTED National Health Insurance and the Beveredige plan for welfare. They did NOT want Imperial adventures and military...

Creating a situation in which the US must choose between Great Britain having it's way and communism would definitely be in character for Churchill. Basically, that's how Great Britain manipulated the Mossadegh situation in Iran seven years later. Mossadegh nationalizes BP holdings in Iran...

The Portuguese and Jesuits really missed a bet in Korea, which was not xenophobic prior to Hideyoshi's invasion. The Koreans believe in a one god named Hanumim. Buddhism had to make a great many adjustments to accommodate that belief. Christian missionaries were unexpectedly successful when they...

Could or would the Qing really have held everything along the Pacific to the Bering Strait?

The Jurchens get into a conflict with the Mongols or the Khitai, with the Eastern Turks and conquer Mongolia first, then start moving west, including conquering Hsi Hsia and Kara Khitai and Tibet before taking on Song China. The Jurchen realize that they need to unify all of the steppe peoples...

If the Oirats are natural allies of the Russians is there some place in Siberia, or even west of the Urals that Russia would be comfortable settling ALL of them, not just a remnant, so that the Russians can basically enroll the Oirats as a sort of registered cossacks, but well out of the Qing's...

An old professor of mine told me that when the Russians and Chinese were negotiating over the border of Siberia and Qing, the Qing negotiators at one point suggested that the border be the eastward flowing portion of the LENA River, not the Amur. The Stanovoi crest was agreed upon as a...

Bismarck believed that Alsace was needed as a buffer against France. Lorraine too. Lorraine, though, was more French than German. So it might have made a lot more sense for France to be forced to cede Lorraine to Belgium if Belgium could be persuaded to take it. Germany maybe takes Alsace, which...

Naturally MGM killed the Silver Slippers idea for a show made during the height of the New Deal.:rolleyes: Free Silver was too fundamentalist an economic message for the Roosevelt years. (Though expansion of silver currency instead of Federal Reserve Notes WOULD have been a shot in the arm for...

Certainly plenty of WWI vintage Garands. And Spanish American War vintage Mausers. And whatever they can pick up from an armed American public second hand.

Could Austria Hungary or Germany rush troops across Italy to attack France in Provence where the French Army isn't? If AH or German forces take Marseilles and Toulon, not only is Algeria largely cut off from France but the Germans have a fighting chance to reach Bourdeaux. Which is where the...

I think Japan gave up a little too easy after WWI IOTL too.

If the Confederacy makes headway, the Navy might well have to pull out of Charleston and possibly Norfolk Newport News. In which case New England ports might well be their port in a storm. And the Navy might well keep New England loyal Unionist. Along with New York and possibly Philadelphia all...

The Mormons will fight to keep Arizona. And take enough of Sonora so that they will have a seaport. Cascadia is one of those places that very well might decide to be Canadian if Canada will have them.

San Diego County secedes from California? The fact of the matter is that the Navy can't do all that much even with the Marines once one gets far away from the Ocean. And a home port on the Pacific isn't all that useful if the rest of the Union (or Confederacy) ends at El Paso TX. Take over Los...